Powering off a VMware virtual machine (soft)

Using VMware, you can power off your virtual machines in two different ways: power off (soft) and power off (hard). When you power off a virtual machine with VMware tools that are installed on the virtual machine, it is referred to as power off (soft). When a virtual machine is powered off by immediately stopping it, it is referred to as a power off (hard). You can perform both hard and soft power off operations on VMware virtual machines from within the IBM® BigFix console.

Before you begin

To power off (soft) a virtual machine, you must have VMware tools installed on the guest operating system of the virtual machine.

About this task

Complete the following steps to power off a VMware virtual machine (soft).

Procedure

  1. Open the Server Automation domain.
  2. From the navigation tree in the Server Automation domain, click Virtualization > Virtual Machine Management > Power Configuration to open the list of Power Configuration Tasks.
  3. From the Powe Configuration list, select the Power Off VM (soft) Task.
  4. In the Task: Power Off VM (soft) window, click Take Action.
  5. In the Take Action dialog box, ensure Specific computers selected in the list below is selected.
  6. To target a virtual machine to power off, select a virtual machine from the Computer Name list and click OK.

Results

When the virtual machine is powered off, the Status changes to Completed in the Action: Power Off VM (soft) window.